NYC’s Amazon Debacle and the Need for Affordable Energy

March 6, 2019

CEA’s David Holt looks at how vital infrastructure and energy projects have been unnecessarily halted due to extreme activist groups resulting in job losses and a lack of economic growth – much like that of the failed Amazon deal in New York.

Like the yanked-out Amazon deal — which eliminated 25,000 would-be jobs, more than $10 billion in incremental tax revenue and billions more in regional economic activity — the energy sector from coast to coast has seen various production and infrastructure proposals hindered, delayed or cancelled by one-sided and ill-informed extremists who put narrow, extremist politics before country and their cash-strapped, hard-working constituents.